Weird Man falls from skyscraper, lives to tell the horror

[Rheias]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Doctors say they have never seen anything like it: A window washer who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper is now awake, talking to his family and expected to walk again.

Alcides Moreno, 37, plummeted almost 500 feet in a December 7 scaffolding collapse that killed his brother.

Somehow, Moreno lived, and doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced Thursday that his recovery has been astonishing.

He has movement in all his limbs. He is breathing on his own. And on Christmas Day, he opened his mouth and spoke for the first time since the accident.

His wife, Rosario Moreno, cried as she thanked the doctors and nurses who kept him alive.

"Thank God for the miracle that we had," she said. "He keeps telling me that it just wasn't his time."

Window cleaner falls 47 storeys - and survives

A month after New York plunge that killed his brother, Alcides Moreno makes stunning recovery from body-shattering injuries

www.theguardian.com

 

[Prometheus]

Maybe he fell on his brother or something, I mean there was that woman who survived a 30,000 ft fall in an airplane tail.

 

[dunpealx4]

no doubt that he fell while climbing up the stairs to heaven and got back to earth.

 

[Matemeo]

no doubt that he fell while climbing the stairs to heaven and got back to earth.

No doubt whatsoever

 

[Cornface]

He's probably a mage, he used Slowfall.

 

[Ninja_sheep]

Actually every object has a maximum speed of falling because the air reduces the falling speed. What does it mean? Falling from 500 and 10'000 meter doesn't make any difference as long as you are in the earths atmosphere. At least at the crash. An average human reaches his maximum falling speed after around 55 meters and he will crash with around 200km/h into the floor. However the speed and the damage of crash is also dependent in what position you land.
However this guy was really lucky. He can still move all his limbs :O

 

[Prometheus]

Not that I understood all of what ninja said but...
Everything falls at the same rate, you are slowed only by wind <something>. The larger your surface area, the slower you fall.

 

[Matemeo]

He's probably a mage, he used Slowfall.

No, he was hurt when he landed, it's obvious that he is a rogue, and had his fall damage reduced.

 

[Ninja_sheep]

Not that I understood all of what ninja said but...

I said in simple words: Humans can't fall faster then 200 km/h.

 

[Sim]

That's what one could call "uber luck".

 

[Insane!]

aww i was hoping for a big splat
Just kidding

 

[LurkerAspect]

you are slowed only by wind <something>. The larger your surface area, the slower you fall.

That's called friction . When something falls, it's speed increases by 2kph per second, therefore, after 1 second of falling, you are going 2kph, after 2 seconds, you go 4kph, etc, until you reach a terminal velocity (When air friction prevents you from going any faster) that is 200kph.

Just a liddle science lesson for you guys

 

[Prometheus]

I was saying Air Resistance.
Wiki seems to not have much on "falling" so I can't get a definite.

 

[DDRtists]

Kc, theres nothing to research about, really. They teach you that in middle school, it's not that hard to understand. :>

This guy is really, really lucky, though. :X